And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Start of an unbroken string of very successful carrier fighters by Grumman, until Congress nixed the next-gen Super Tomcat (yes, Grumman had plans, PLANS, to next-gen the Tomcat. Advanced composites, new engines, conformal tanks, all updated cockpit and all of that, but, no, Big Navy had to shoot their wad on the A-12 and that killed carrier aviation for 3 decades.)
Brewster Buffalo?
ReplyDeletenope, a Grumman F2F1 my bad
DeleteHe did say deadly. The only people successful with the Brewster Buffalo were the Finns.
DeleteBut, Finns, so ...
For a nice look at Grumman F3F biplanes, see the 1940 Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey film Flight Command.
ReplyDeleteI might not be able to hit bottom, but I can sure slap it around the sides!
ReplyDeleteStart of an unbroken string of very successful carrier fighters by Grumman, until Congress nixed the next-gen Super Tomcat (yes, Grumman had plans, PLANS, to next-gen the Tomcat. Advanced composites, new engines, conformal tanks, all updated cockpit and all of that, but, no, Big Navy had to shoot their wad on the A-12 and that killed carrier aviation for 3 decades.)
ReplyDeleteAnd now, instead, they get the F-35 Thunderjug. Well-played. They'd have gotten more capability from the F2F.
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